quarter
/ˈk(w)oɹ.tɚ/ adjective C2- Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
- Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (¹⁄₄, 25%). · a quarter hour; a quarter century; a quarter note; a quarter pound
- Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year. · A quarter day is one terminating a quarter of the year.· A quarter session is one held quarterly at the end of a quarter.
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“Over head and ears; but, unless I am much mistaken, there will be a storm in that quarter.”
“Be as quick as possible, I must be on the road in a quarter of an hour.”
I receive an anonymous communication from a quarter which I know to be important, warning me that danger threatens a certain person.
Now, as a quarter-past one has already struck, I do not consider I have asserted too much in saying, that, in another hour and thirty minutes Mercédès will have become Madame Dantès.”
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